Are you still on Facebook? Did you know that they’ve changed their terms of service? Bascially, the new TOS say that they own you. Forever.

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

Well, now…makes me glad I forsook them! So, now…are you STILL on Facebook?

Update: Looks like Facebook have returned to their original TOS, bowing in to public pressure (thanks Joe!):Terms of Use Update

Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.

Scientists at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology have grown a leather coat from stem cells, which is all kinds “weird science”. They’ve even named the coat “victimless leather”. Despite the coat being so small, it’s…well…bizarre. We seem to have no problem in using leather from dead cattle (or other animals, for that matter), most likely because the hide would have otherwise gone to waste, and because it’s a byproduct of a living creature. This coat is alive until fully grown. I assume that after it’s taken off life support, it’d still have to be cured.

Unfortunately, while this coat was on display in New York, it was pulled from life support when it grew too large for the container.

Some people put a lot of passion into their passions, and I suspect none more so than cosplayers. Video game cosplayers tend to be quite meticulous about their costume creations, but these are seriously the best costumes from video games I’ve seen in a long while. The linked picture is from the brilliant game Katamari Damacy (if you haven’t played it, you’ve lost out on one amazing gaming experience!) It kinda makes me wish we had cosplay events in this part of the world–I’d LOVE to put together costumes like this. I did a Prince of Persia costume once, and when I hunt the photo down I’ll post it.